Scaling Queue Workers Efficiently with AppSignal Metrics

Let’s use some simple math and performance data to find our optimal worker count, based on the work waiting in the queue. [more inside]

Using AWS with Ruby in 2007

This one is a bit of a treat. Normally I capture blog posts, articles, releases or talks. But this week I’ve found an AWS-with-Ruby tutorial archived from the AWS site this week in 2007!

Ruby on Rails vs Python: What’s The Difference?

Ruby on Rails development or Python, what sets them apart from each other? Knowing the difference can make a difference in your programming. While both have their strengths, a careful analysis can help you select the one most appropriate for your development needs.

End-to-End Encryption in Rails with Stimulus and OpenPGP.js

Ever wondered how to implement end-to-end encryption in a server-side-rendered app? In this post, I explain how we did it in a production app and give an example for a user-to-user messaging system that encrypts and decrypts messages on the client via Stimulus and OpenPGP.

Rails and JavaScript, parts 2 and 3

My series of posts on the history of Rails and JavaScript continues with part 2 covering CoffeeScript, Sprockets and Turbolinks and part 3 covering Webpacker and Stimulus.

Pagination and Scroll Restoration with Turbolinks

Two weeks ago, it was all the rage to point to missing HEY features as slam-dunk arguments for your-SPA-framework-of-choice. One of those was restoring your place in your imbox after opening an email. Here’s a look at how we might do it.

Anonymous Struct Literals Might Be Coming To Ruby

There’s a neat proposal to add anonymous Struct literals to Ruby! I wrote an article summarizing the proposal and why it’s great. Check it out here!

A Safer RuboCop, Part Deux

A wrote a short article on our recent efforts to improve auto-correct in RuboCop.

Soft Delete with Discard

Soft delete is a way where users can mark a record as no longer needed, but the data is retained. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/soft-delete-with-discard

How to Install Mariadb on Ubuntu and Connect Ruby on Rails?

Learn more about how to install mariadb on Ubuntu and connect ruby on rails?

rubocop-graphql

rubocop-graphql is a rubocop plugin that enforces graphql-ruby best practices

[ActiveRecord] Easily build and chain Common Table Expressions queries

Following on my 6 months old PR to bring CTE support to Rails out of the box I released the code as a Ruby gem https://github.com/vlado/activerecord-cte. It uses Arel in the background and is database agnostic. Always returns ActiveRecord::Relation so it is easy to chain, cache, count, aggregate, …

has_placeholder_image for ActiveStorage models

We’ve released a Ruby gem enabling developers to generate string based placeholder images for Ruby on Rails models with ActiveStorage. Check it out: [more inside]

Ruby Mysql2 Lambda Gem

Very simple Mysql2 gem precompiled for Amazon Linux 1 & 2 (Ruby 2.5 & 2.7) with statically linked libmysqlclient ready for any AWS Lambda usage, including Rails.

File upload in GraphQL-ruby using Active Storage Direct Upload

Generating fibonacci numbers using dictionary and recursion

rubycademy.com/fibo-numbers-dictionary-recursion

Is module_function really the same as extend self ?

A deep dive into module_function and extend self.. [more inside]

Overview of running Rails on ECS Fargate

This post gives you an overview of the key components needed to deploy a Rails app to Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate. [more inside]

A few sneak peeks into Hey.com technology

An ongoing series of posts analyzing the hey.com website front-end code, trying to find the goodies that will possibly get extracted into future Rails, Turbolinks and Stimulus framework releases. An examination of the How did they do it? question. [more inside]

How To Integrate Google Calendar API with Rails

Integrate your Ruby on Rails application with the Google Calendar API and add tasks. Follow these steps during Ruby on Rails development to integrate Google Calendar. [more inside]

The real reason why `!` has a higher precedence than `not`

rubycademy.com/operator-vs-keyword

Trailblazer 2.1 released with dev tools and state machines

Trailblazer is a framework for a stronger Rails architecture. It provides service objects and flow control. Yesterday, we launched the new website and more docs along with a comprehensive release post introducing an improved developer experience, state machines, and many more upcoming gems.

WahWah - Audio metadata reader ruby gem

WahWah has been released v1.0.0 now. WahWah is an audio metadata reader ruby gem, it supports many popular formats including mp3(ID3 v1, v2.2, v2.3, v2.4), m4a, ogg, oga, opus, wav, flac and wma. WahWah is written in pure ruby, and without any dependencies.

New Screencast Site About Rails (+ Web-Dev in General)

I’ve been an indie Rails-hacker for 10+ years and recently recorded a series of screencasts showing behind the scenes of my web-app business, site OxbridgeNotes (scale = approximately 14k LOC Rails/JS). [more inside]

digest-crc 0.6.0 released. ~40x performance improvement!

digest-crc 0.6.0 has been released. This release introduces optional C extensions, that when built on CRuby, will override the pure-Ruby CRC methods with C equivalents, providing a ~40x performance improvement. If the C extensions cannot be built (no compiler installed, no ruby.h headers, not using CRuby) digest-crc will fallback to using the pure-Ruby CRC methods. [more inside]